Configuring PowerShell for Windows Azure

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmSo, you’ve got your Windows Azure subscription all set up (and if you don’t you can set up a FREE TRIAL HERE), and now you want to use PowerShell to work with your Windows Azure-based resources. In case you weren’t aware, Microsoft provides a Windows Azure PowerShell module for scripted management of Windows Azure services. … Continue reading Configuring PowerShell for Windows Azure

(Episode 18) Windows 8 Tips: Tweaks and Customizations

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWelcome to another main installment of our “20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services”. For those of you who are just now starting to follow along, make sure to start your FREE TRIAL of Windows Azure, so that you can follow along. Those of you who are familiar with System Center 2012, and in … Continue reading Cloud-Based SCCM Distribution Point? Why yes! – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWell, do you? “Yes! And I bet you’re going to tell me to use Windows Azure.” You’re catching on! In today’s article in our “20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services”, my friend Keith Mayer shares some excellent tips, resources, and a step-by-step for building a SharePoint 2013 lab housed completely in Windows Azure. … Continue reading Do you want to test SharePoint 2013 without dedicating your own hardware?

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmWelcome to another installment of our May series of articles – “20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services”. Today I’m going to describe a scenario, a problem, and then propose a solution. The Scenario: Single Sign-On support using Active Directory, Windows Azure Active Directory, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), and Office 365 and/or … Continue reading Put your ADFS in the Cloud – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

Windows Azure Infrastructure Services allows you to build complex solutions, hosted in Microsoft datacenters, as readily a you would have them running in your own lab or datacenter. For today’s article in our “20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services”, my friend Matt Hester gives us a detailed lab assignment which, in the end, … Continue reading Deploy Web Server Solutions in the Cloud – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmIf you can extend your datacenter into the cloud using a secured network path and Windows Azure, it sure should follow that you can take advantage of cloud-based virtual machines to perform some of your more common infrastructure tasks. For example: File Servers.“Yeah, I get it, Kevin. You have a secured network connection, and you … Continue reading Deploy a WebDAV File Server in the Cloud – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htmThis just in… The demand has been so great for more information about using Windows Azure Infrastructure Services as an extension of your datacenter and IT Operations, that we’ve decided to schedule a few more FREE events to close out the end of our fiscal year here in Central Region Microsoft US DPE. The four … Continue reading NEW! Hands-On Datacenter Scenarios and Windows Azure Events

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/inetpub/kevinremde/KROmniture.htm“Hey Kevin… I would like to use Windows Azure as a location where I set up a SQL Server database mirror. Is this something I can do?” Absolutely, yes! In fact, it doesn’t even require anything fancy as far as setting up special connectors or site-to-site VPN in order to try this out (though in … Continue reading SQL Database Mirroring to the Cloud – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services

So now that we’ve been talking about building virtual machines in Windows Azure, and extending your datacenter into “the cloud”, we need to actually make the connection. But how does one actually build the Windows Azure Network, and then that subnet our local subnets? Keith Mayer gives us the answer today in our latest “20 … Continue reading Extend Your Private Cloud with Windows Azure Virtual Networks and Windows Server 2012 – 20 Key Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services